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Library Focus

Library Focus, the newsletter of University Libraries, is published twice a year during the spring and fall semester. Library Focus highlights the collections, services, events and activities at the libraries of the Hattiesburg and Gulf Coast campuses.

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Library Focus (Spring 2007)

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The Spring 2007 issue of Library Focus, the newsletter of University Libraries, includes articles featuring the Information Commons at Cook Library; changes to electronic resources; post-Hurricane Katrina recovery plans for the Gulf Coast Library and Media Center; the 40^th annual Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival; the QEP Speaking Center; the Popular Reading Collection; and Katrina Grants received by University Libraries.
Library Focus (Fall 2006)

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The Fall 2006 issue of Library Focus, the newsletter of University Libraries, includes articles featuring a collection of Scott Cook’s works donated to the de Grummond Collection; new services for faculty and staff; new popular reading materials; the first Library Research forum; and a new library web site and electronic resources.
Library Focus (Spring 2006)

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Library Focus (Fall 2005)

University Libraries

The Fall 2005 issue of Library Focus, the newsletter of University Libraries, includes articles featuring Hurricane Katrina damage to University Libraries; an alumni association library book fund; the relocation of the Cook Library Juvenile Collection to the Curriculum Materials Center; the Book Arts Lecture Series; and new resources at University Libraries.
Library Focus (Spring 2005)

University Libraries

The Spring 2005 issue of Library Focus, the newsletter of University Libraries, includes articles featuring the arrival of Starbucks at Cook Library; the Mississippi Digital Library; AFI’s 100 Greatest Movies; and the 38^th annual Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival.
Library Focus (Fall 2003)

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The Fall 2003 issue of Library Focus, the newsletter of University Libraries, includes articles featuring an interview with former associate dean of Libraries, Kay Wall; new electronic resources; faculty resources for teaching information literacy skills; changes to the University Libraries’ web site; growth of Cook Library’s media collection; and an Institute of Museum and Library Services grant awarded to University Libraries.
Library Focus (Fall 2004)

University Libraries

The Fall 2004 issue of Library Focus, the newsletter of University Libraries, includes articles featuring the state of the Library Materials Budget; the relocation of genealogy materials to the general collections within Cook Library; plagiarism detection software, Turnitin, microform collections; Google Scholar; and the de Grummond 18^th annual Holiday Book Fair.
Library Focus (Spring 2003)

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The Spring 2003 issue of Library Focus, the newsletter of University Libraries, includes articles featuring the new live reference chat; a Freedom Summer seminar; Artifacts of Faith: Writing, Relics and Reproductions from the Middle Ages, a McCain Library exhibit; the additions of the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive and the Mississippi Oral History Project; the 36^th annual Fay B. Kaigler Children’s Book Festival; and new library resources.
Library Focus (Fall 2002)

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The Fall 2002 issue of Library Focus, the newsletter of University Libraries, includes articles featuring the Mary and Joseph Tatum Student Internship endowment; planned giving to University Libraries; a publication celebrating the works of Ezra Jack Keats; resources for research in women’s studies; the new Gulf Coast Library; library instruction efforts; new policies at Cook Library; and information about electronic resources.
Library Focus (Spring 2002)

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The Spring 2002 issue of Library Focus, the newsletter of University Libraries, includes articles featuring Sam Edison Woods; a traveling exhibit celebrating sixty years of Curious George; a McCain exhibit showcasing the works of Ezra Jack Keats; University Libraries membership in the Library of Congress’s Name Authority Cooperative Program; University Libraries’ new DVD collection; and new electronic resources.
Library Focus (Fall 2001)

University Libraries

The Fall 2001 issue of Library Focus, the newsletter of University Libraries, includes articles featuring instructions for creating a personal library web site; a National Endowment for the Humanities grant awarded to the de Grummond collection; civil rights letters and posters in the digital archives; the 2001 Southeastern Library Network Outstanding Library Program Award given to University Libraries; new electronic resources; a Curious George exhibit in Japan; and a new digitization grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
Library Focus (Spring 2001)

University Libraries

The Spring 2001 issue of Library Focus, the newsletter of University Libraries, includes articles featuring the 34^th annual Children’s Book Festival; the Faces of Freedom Summer exhibit; web transcripts of Civil Rights oral histories; long-time library benefactor James A. Riley; new electronic resources; construction on the new Gulf Coast Library; and the Virtual Reading Room.
Library Focus (Fall 2000)

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The Fall 2000 issue of Library Focus, the newsletter of University Libraries, includes articles featuring the 14^th annual Holiday Book Fair; the installation of wireless internet at Cook and McCain Libraries; library services for distance learners; the Music Resource Center; new electronic databases; online oral histories of the Civil Rights Movement; and the publication of H.A. Rey’s Whiteblack the Penguin Sees the World.
Library Focus (Spring 2000)

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The Spring 2000 issue of Library Focus, the newsletter of University Libraries, includes articles featuring the promotion of library databases and electronic resources; the de Grummond Collection’s acquisition of the works of Louis Slobodkin and Glenn E. Estes Collection; University Libraries fundraising efforts; and a tribute to Roy Mitchell Wheat, Mississippi’s only Medal of Honor recipient for service in the Vietnam War.
Library Focus (Fall 1998)

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The Fall 1998 issue of Library Focus, the newsletter of University Libraries, includes articles featuring the addition of new electronic resources; the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection at McCain Library; and the relocation of the Media Resources Center.
Library Focus (Spring 1998)

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The Spring 1998 issue of Library Focus, the newsletter of University Libraries, includes articles featuring satellite programming at University Libraries; business resources on the internet; electronic resources; Civil Rights Movement papers donated to the USM Archives by Victoria Gray Adams; and the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection.
Library Focus (Fall 1997)

University Libraries

The Fall 1997 issue of Library Focus, the newsletter of University Libraries, includes articles featuring new electronic resources; the 11^th annual Holiday Book Fair; a National Endowment for the Humanities grant awarded to the de Grummond Collection; microform collections in Cook Library; and the reorganization of the Teaching Learning Resource Center.
Library Focus (Spring 1997)

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The Spring 1997 issue of Library Focus, the newsletter of University Libraries, includes articles featuring an interview with Dr. Horace Fleming; the Cook Library Reading Room; electronic resources; and the Music Resource Center.
Library Focus (Fall 1996)

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The Fall 1996 issue of Library Focus, the newsletter of University Libraries, includes articles featuring the opening of the expanded Cook Library; electronic resources; the University Archives; the Gunn Education Materials Center; and an exhibit in Japan featuring artwork from the de Grummond Collection.
Library Focus (Spring 1996)

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The Spring 1996 issue of Library Focus, the newsletter of University Libraries, includes articles featuring an interview with University Librarian, Dr. James R. Martin; electronic document delivery; and USM’s Oral History Collection.
Library Focus (Fall 1995)

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The Fall 1995 issue of Library Focus, the newsletter of University Libraries, includes articles featuring renovations to Cook Library; electronic library services; the Cox Library; feature films at the Teaching Learning Resource Center; and de Grummond Collection materials on display in Japan.